The Centre of Pulmonology of Coimbra University Medical School (CP), approved in 1978 by the former National Institute of Scientific Research (INIC), is coordinated by Carlos Robalo Cordeiro, since 2006.

It is the Unit 123 of the Science and Technology Foundation and is made up of an Administrative Board, that includes 5 PhD Professors:

Manuel Fontes Baganha (Professor of Pulmonology), Manuel Santos Rosa (Professor of Immunology), António Segorbe Luís (Professor of Clinical Immunology), Carlos Robalo Cordeiro (Professor of Pulmonology), Lina Carvalho (Professor of Pathology),

and an External Advisory Board, with 4 PhD Professors:

António Rendas (Medical Sciences School, New University of Lisbon), António Coutinho (Gulbenkian Institute of Science, Associate Laboratory, Oeiras), Om Sharma (University of Southern California, Los Angeles), Ulrich Costabel (Ruhrlanklinik, Essen).

Though the CP is based in the Department of Pulmonology and Allergology of Coimbra University Hospital, it includes a multidisciplinary research unit, functioning in collaboration with several Departments and Laboratories of the University Hospital and Medical School, the Sciences and Technology School, the School of Economics and Aveiro University. Also, the Pathology Department, ENT Department, Infectious Diseases Department, liability centre of the Cardiothoracic Department, Histocompatibility Centre, Experimental Pathology Laboratory, Genetics Department of the Faculty of Medicine, Institutes of Immunology and General Pathology, IBILI, the Fluid Mechanics Department and the Chemistry Department of the Sciences and Technology Faculty, Mathematics Department of the Economics Faculty.

Actually, the Centre includes 21 PhDs, 36 non PhDs researchers (4 masters, 6 PhDs students and 3 master’s students) and 6 collaborators (technical and administrative staff).